From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Subject: [TUHS] daemons are not to be exorcised
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2018 13:24:04 +1100 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.1803221317330.36168@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180321173403.GD9739@mcvoy.com>
On Wed, 21 Mar 2018, Larry McVoy wrote:
> Yep. Someone once told me "any code that you wrote more than 6 months
> ago might as well have been written by someone else. So write it in a
> way that you can debug it".
Yep, and I'm glad that I had bosses to whom I didn't have to explain why
my comments were so voluminous.
And who first said "Write your code as though the next person to maintain
it is a psychotic axe-wielding murderer who knows where you live"? I've
often thought that way (as the murderer I mean, not the murderee).
I'd name names, but he might be on this list...
--
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer."
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-03-22 2:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 85+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-03-21 14:17 Noel Chiappa
2018-03-21 15:03 ` Clem Cole
2018-03-21 16:18 ` Arthur Krewat
2018-03-21 17:28 ` Paul Winalski
2018-03-21 17:33 ` George Michaelson
2018-03-21 17:50 ` Arthur Krewat
2018-03-21 19:49 ` A. P. Garcia
2018-03-21 19:37 ` Paul Winalski
2018-03-21 17:34 ` Larry McVoy
2018-03-22 2:24 ` Dave Horsfall [this message]
2018-03-21 17:39 ` WIlliam Cheswick
2018-03-21 17:52 ` Arthur Krewat
2018-03-21 17:56 ` Nemo
2018-03-21 18:01 ` Larry McVoy
2018-03-21 18:04 ` Dan Cross
2018-03-21 19:56 ` Clem Cole
2018-03-21 20:04 ` [TUHS] comments ( was daemons exorcised ) Earl Baugh
2018-03-21 20:18 ` Paul Winalski
2018-03-21 20:51 ` Ron Natalie
2018-03-21 20:13 ` [TUHS] daemons are not to be exorcised Paul Winalski
2018-03-21 20:28 ` [TUHS] Comments in early Unix systems Warren Toomey
2018-03-21 20:48 ` Ron Natalie
2018-03-21 22:18 ` William Corcoran
2018-03-21 23:02 ` Clem Cole
2018-03-22 1:31 ` Larry McVoy
2018-03-21 23:17 ` Arthur Krewat
2018-03-21 23:50 ` Larry McVoy
2018-03-22 0:55 ` Mike Markowski
2018-03-22 1:00 ` Larry McVoy
2018-03-21 23:45 ` Warner Losh
2018-03-22 0:31 ` Steve Johnson
2018-03-22 0:58 ` Andy Kosela
2018-03-22 1:27 ` Larry McVoy
2018-03-22 1:59 ` Bakul Shah
2018-03-22 14:46 ` Steve Simon
2018-03-22 15:22 ` ron minnich
2018-03-22 16:22 ` Ron Natalie
2018-03-22 16:32 ` arnold
2018-03-22 20:20 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2018-03-22 16:33 ` Kurt H Maier
2018-03-23 1:31 ` Charles Anthony
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2018-03-20 21:32 [TUHS] daemons are not to be exorcised Nelson H. F. Beebe
2018-03-20 1:26 A. P. Garcia
2018-03-20 1:40 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-03-20 1:47 ` maxigas
2018-03-20 4:23 ` Grant Taylor
2018-03-20 4:24 ` Steve Nickolas
2018-03-20 4:40 ` Grant Taylor
2018-03-20 5:19 ` A. P. Garcia
2018-03-21 2:31 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-03-21 3:20 ` Larry McVoy
2018-03-21 4:30 ` Warner Losh
2018-03-21 4:52 ` Grant Taylor
2018-03-21 9:16 ` Jaap Akkerhuis
2018-03-22 0:18 ` Grant Taylor
2018-03-22 0:22 ` Larry McVoy
2018-03-21 13:59 ` Clem Cole
2018-03-21 14:18 ` Paul Winalski
2018-03-21 15:15 ` Warner Losh
2018-03-21 15:45 ` Andy Kosela
2018-03-21 15:49 ` Warner Losh
2018-03-22 0:28 ` Grant Taylor
2018-03-20 6:32 ` Andy Kosela
2018-03-20 12:31 ` Nemo
2018-03-20 17:48 ` Paul Winalski
2018-03-20 17:56 ` George Michaelson
2018-03-20 18:04 ` Dan Cross
2018-03-20 18:24 ` Bakul Shah
2018-03-20 18:46 ` Clem Cole
2018-03-20 19:10 ` Bakul Shah
2018-03-20 19:55 ` Dan Cross
2018-03-20 19:56 ` Tim Bradshaw
2018-03-20 21:12 ` A. P. Garcia
2018-03-20 21:40 ` Andy Kosela
2018-03-21 6:32 ` Wesley Parish
2018-03-20 20:14 ` Warren Toomey
2018-03-20 20:25 ` Paul Winalski
2018-03-20 21:15 ` Clem Cole
2018-03-20 21:09 ` Clem Cole
2018-03-20 18:53 ` Toby Thain
2018-03-20 19:24 ` Nemo Nusquam
2018-03-21 12:10 ` emanuel stiebler
2018-03-25 19:56 ` emanuel stiebler
2018-03-26 9:44 ` George Michaelson
2018-03-26 12:38 ` emanuel stiebler
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